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We are delighted that Ken Simmonds has joined us as Regional Director for the East, leading on the cross-service business management and operations functions for the region and accountable for the East’s performance and growth.

Ken joins us with over 30 years’ experience across the Civil Engineering and Infrastructure sectors and is both a Chartered Civil Engineer (ICE Fellow) and a Chartered Manager (CMI Fellow). Ken recently worked at Jacobs as their Executive Director of Operations and Head of Strategy and Transformation – Highways, Major Projects, and prior to that as Divisional Director, Major Projects at Highways England. He has significant experience working across multi-disciplinary projects in both the public and private sectors including the M20 Lorry Area in Kent, M25 Junction 30 Improvements, Bracknell Town Centre Regeneration, the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway and supported Highways England in the delivery of their business transformation programme.

Find out more about Ken over on our website.

We are delighted to announce that we have been appointed as a partner of Kent County Council through their new Highways, Transportation and Waste Professional Services Framework.

The three-year contract, with a possible one-year extension, will see Project Centre deliver highways, engineering and transportation projects, to support the Council in delivering its strategic objectives and better outcomes for Kent’s residents, communities and businesses.

Kent County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport, Michael Payne, said: “This is good news for Kent. Through this new contract we can get access to the best technical advice and innovation in the industry at very competitive rates whilst helping local business.”

Read the full story over on our website.

Recently we’ve received a lot of questions and requests for advice regarding implementing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods so we thought we would share our knowledge with our clients by hosting a webinar with Landor on Tuesday 11 August, 10.30am.

Our Technical Director Chris Harrison who has designed LTNs for Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Haringey will be speaking alongside Waltham Forest Deputy Leader Councillor Clyde Loakes who implemented a Mini Holland scheme in the borough and Barbara Wade, Liverpool City Region’s Local Transport Planning Manager where they are currently implementing a number of cycling schemes. The panellists will be kept in check by our very own Senior Urban Designer Saskia Huizinga who will be chairing the webinar.

Read more over on our website.